Furious Manchester City make written complaint to FA over scheduling of Chelsea cup tie
Furious Manchester City have made a formal complaint to the FA over the scheduling of their FA Cup tie with Chelsea.
Furious Manchester City have made a formal complaint to the FA over the scheduling of their FA Cup tie with Chelsea.
Manuel Pellegrini is on a collision course with the Football Association after Manchester City’s FA Cup tie against Chelsea was moved to just three days before the club’s Champions League clash with Dynamo Kyiv.
London (AFP)
City manager Pellegrini had warned that he would select an under-strength City team for the fifth round trip to Stamford Bridge if the English game’s governing body and television networks didn’t bow to his scheduling demands.
Manchester City believe the FA are making it impossible for them to continue their challenge for an unprecedented quadruple.
KYIV – It came as no surprise that President Petro Poroshenko met with Aivaras Abromavicius within hours of his resignation on February 3 to convince him to remain as minister of economic development and trade.
Up to now, the shaky ceasefire in Ukraine’s Donbas region has mostly continued to hold (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, January 21). And thus, the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in early 2014, has returned near the top of Kyiv’s international agenda. Following the severance of Ukraine’s economic ties with occupied Crimea late last year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proceeded to drum up international support for the peninsula’s eventual return.
KYIV – The Lviv Oblast Council and Ternopil City Council voted on January 27 to submit appeals to the Verkhovna Rada, expressing their opposition to the establishment of local self-governance for the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
Manchester City’s FA Cup fifth round trip to Chelsea will take place on Sunday, February 21 – just three days before the Blues’ Champions League trip to Dynamo Kyiv.
NEW YORK – An exhibition by Kyiv-based artist Mykola Zhuravel titled “Invasion Redux” opened at the Ukrainian Institute of America on January 22 and is on view through February 14. The artist’s paintings, artistic photographs, three-dimensional panels, installations and videos depict the tragic events of the hybrid war being brutally waged by Russian and Russian-backed forces in Ukraine.